Peter Michely

Peter Michely (born February 24, 1888 in Sulzbach / Saar ; † February 6, 1950 in Hildesheim ) was a German politician of the SPD and the SPS . From 1945 until his death he was district administrator of the district of Saarbrücken .

Life

After attending primary school in Sulzbach, Michely worked as a miner from 1903 to 1920, interrupted by his participation as a soldier in the First World War . On 1 July 1920 he assumed the position of union secretary at the mining industry labor union in Sulzbach, which he joined in 1907, and he also attended the Academy of work of the University in Frankfurt am Main . In 1930 he joined the board of the Saarknappschaft . In addition, from 1933 he was chairman of the Sulzbach Workers' Choir. After the Saar area was annexed to the German Reich in 1935, Michely lost his functions, was arrested and was unemployed for most of the time. During World War II he was in the Saarbrücken air police conscripted, 1944, he was in the course of action thunderstorms in the camp Neue Bremm interned.

In 1949 he was diagnosed with colon cancer, which he succumbed to a little later.

Michely married Johanna, née Oberkircher, in 1910, and this marriage resulted in three daughters. Two Peter-Michely-Strasse were named after him, in Alt-Saarbrücken and in Sulzbach-Neuweiler .

politics

Michely joined the SPD in 1907. In 1918 he moved to the USPD , and in early 1919 to the KPD . After he was excluded from this on May 22, 1921, he rejoined the USPD, on September 24, 1922 he returned to the SPD. From 1926 until his arrest in 1935 he chaired the SPD parliamentary group in the Sulzbach municipal council, for a short time he was also chairman of the local SPD association and from 1930 to 1935 the second councilor of the Sulzbach municipality. After the war he was a member of the state board of the SPS for two years, on May 9, 1946, he took part as a delegate from Saarland at the founding party congress of the SPD in Hanover .

On June 25, 1945 Michely was appointed senior councilor at the senior government presidium of the Palatinate administrative district in Neustadt . On September 10, 1945 he moved to the office of the district administrator of the Saarbrücken district, which he held until his death. He was also a member of the Saarland Constitutional Commission in 1947 .

Web links

• Short biography on saarland-biografien.de
• Rudolf Strumm: Sulzbach - stronghold of the socialist labor movement. A guide to sites of the labor movement in Sulzbach Democracy Foundation Saar, Saarbrücken, 2015 (PDF; p. 106 f.)